Married for 1 year, 30 years old, husband with tongue cancer, 4 months pregnant, wife on leave to accompany

Wang Jun (not his real name), a reporter from Chutian Metropolitan Daily, who lives in Jinqiao, Hankou, Wuhan, worked in a kart club on March 5. Earlier this year, he was checked in a hospital in Wuhan because he found that his right tongue was always ulcerated and had not been well for more than a month. Mr. Wang was shocked by the results of the inspection. The doctor told him that he had tongue cancer and the survival rate was only 60%.

Wang Jun just got married last year, his wife Zhang Hua (a pseudonym) is pregnant for 4 months. When she learned that her husband had cancer, she felt a thunderbolt from the blue. The next day, she asked for leave from the unit and started a rescue journey. Besides crazy online inquiries about major hospitals that can diagnose and treat oral cancer, she also added a large number of oral cancer patients to the group and began to find out whether they could be cured or not. Zhang Hua has heard from many people that a doctor is an expert in this field. She started to make an appointment for the professors number on the Internet early.

On February 14, accompanied by his mother and wife, Wang Jun was admitted to the ward. Professors careful examination showed that Mr. Wang was diagnosed as tongue cancer. Partial tongue resection, neck lymph node dissection and forearm skin flap transplantation were needed to repair the defect after tongue resection.

When he was playing with his friends two years ago, he ate betel nut. He told him that betel nut was not good and that eating too much was carcinogenic, and he didnt listen to it. Not only eat betel nut, but also smoke and drink like, now so young with cancer, regret is too late. Wang Juns mother said sadly.

On February 28, Professor Liu Bing and Shao Chao, deputy director of oncology surgery, performed an operation on Wang Jun for seven hours. According to the results of pathological examination, it is squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue, and there has been ipsilateral cervical lymph node metastasis. Clinically, it belongs to the middle and advanced stage patients. The possibility of recurrence or metastasis to the other side of the neck still exists in the later stage of the cancer. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are needed after surgery. Dr. Shao Chao said.

According to Dr. Shao, early detection and timely treatment of oral cancer is still relatively good. The survival rate is as high as 60%, and the survival rate in the middle and late stages is nearly 50%. If there is no recurrence or metastasis of cancer cells in 5 years, it shows that they have been basically cured. If you have oral cancer, dont rush to the doctor, you must go to a professional medical institution. Doctors will work out a comprehensive sequence treatment plan combining surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy according to the individual condition of the patient. After standardized treatment, a large part of the patients can still get a better therapeutic effect. The key lies in early detection, early diagnosis, early treatment, and it is also important to give up smoking, alcohol, betel nut and other bad habits.

Areca nut has spread rapidly in recent years and has become a major cause of oral cancer. Dr. Shao Chao said that at present, there are 8 patients living in the oral cancer ward of Wuda Oral Cancer Surgery Department who chew betel nut, the youngest 25 years old and the oldest 50 years old. The proportion of patients suffering from betel nut cancer is significantly higher than in previous years. The reason why chewing areca nut can cause oral cancer is that many active ingredients and metabolites of areca nut have cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and even direct carcinogenicity. These substances include areca nut alkaloids, areca nut tannins, areca nut specific nitrosamines and reactive oxygen species. In fact, as early as 2003, the World Health Organization identified areca nut as a primary carcinogen. Chewing areca nut can cause oral submucosal fibrosis, leukoplakia, lichen planus and other mucosal diseases, which belong to precancerous lesions, and serious patients will develop oral cancer. Therefore, when there are white lesions in oral mucosa, ulcers that do not heal for a long time, local pain that does not alleviate for a long time, or difficulties in opening the mouth, it is necessary to go to the regular hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible. Source: Author of Chutian Metropolitan Daily: Editor-in-Charge of Chen Yuan: Su Hongyong_NBJ9980

Areca nut has spread rapidly in recent years and has become a major cause of oral cancer. Dr. Shao Chao said that at present, there are 8 patients living in the oral cancer ward of Wuda Oral Cancer Surgery Department who chew betel nut, the youngest 25 years old and the oldest 50 years old. The proportion of patients suffering from betel nut cancer is significantly higher than in previous years. The reason why chewing areca nut can cause oral cancer is that many active ingredients and metabolites of areca nut have cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and even direct carcinogenicity. These substances include areca nut alkaloids, areca nut tannins, areca nut specific nitrosamines and reactive oxygen species. In fact, as early as 2003, the World Health Organization identified areca nut as a primary carcinogen. Chewing areca nut can cause oral submucosal fibrosis, leukoplakia, lichen planus and other mucosal diseases, which belong to precancerous lesions, and serious patients will develop oral cancer. Therefore, when there are white lesions in oral mucosa, ulcers that do not heal for a long time, local pain that does not alleviate for a long time, or difficulties in opening the mouth, it is necessary to go to the regular hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible.